11.25.2014

How to put this--I understand that some of you think Darren
Wilson was an officer just doing his job. We'll never really know, because Michael
Brown is dead and never got to tell his side of the story. As is Trayvon
Martin. As are many, many others. What I don't understand is the GLEE in the
verdict. What I don't understand is the GLEE in another "thug" being
shown his place. If you don't care about the circumstances that put young black
men in this position, you're part of the problem. It's not the fault of so many
of our country's children that they're born into poverty and have little chance
of succeeding in life. It's our fault for not caring.

While mopping my floor, I just flashed back to my childhood,
when not only did my chores include having to vacuum my electric lime
green-colored shag carpet but having to RAKE it as well so the shag was all
nice and neat and orderly. Oh, 1970's, what a very, very strange decade you
were.